Word: epithet
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...improved practically every company that he has gone into and, since he has never sold any of his major acquisitions, denies with some justice the common charge that he is a raider. Says he: "We wouldn't even come close to raiding, but this is used as a demagogic epithet by inadequate managements as their way of keeping their position. In a situation like Swift, which has leadership in the meat-and-carton industry and yet shows a consistently low return on investment, what has happened in the way of management over the past 30 or 40 years has been...
...outdone, Bourguiba's government had arranged for some 10,000 to hit the streets in Tunis. Tossing the "madman" epithet right back at Cairo, the mob paraded with banners reading "Palestinians recognize in Bourguiba their real defender" and "A firing squad for Nasser!", then broke through police lines to stone the Iraqi embassy and smash down the door at the Egyptian. Ambassadors took wing like homing pigeons. Egypt huffily ordered its envoy out of Tunisia, and in a single day Tunisian diplomats to Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad arrived back in Tunis...
...because he is, say, a sixty-year-old Negro who is obliged to earn a living in Alabama? Many Negro men and women, born too early in the South, are in such a position. No Northerner, white or black, has the right to level such an epithet at these people, or even to give it ambiguous approval, after returning to his own state. Moreover, it is doubtful that an Alabama Negro of twenty has the right to level it at one of sixty-five...
...might have won more, if only his standards weren't so high. No member of the squad was allowed to drink or smoke; to break those rules was to beg instant dismissal. His strongest epithet was "jackass," or "double jackass" if he really got carried away, and he used ii so often that a rival coach remarked...
...nevertheless the only British poet who still seems able to compose great poems. He is the Marvell of the age, and his finest verses speak from the heart to the heart in precise but passionate language that can capture a lifetime in a line, an era in an epithet...